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Tory MP in ‘free’ slave and master sex scandal

 

John Whittingdale, the Culture Secretary, says he has been “in a relationship” with a sex worker. The Telegraph takes up the story of the Tory MP and the “dominatrix”. The Mail … (read more)

Posted: 13th, April 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Manchester United balls: Fergie’s banger clanger

Hear the story about former Manchester United manger Alex Ferguson’s sausage sandwich? The Star has news:
Revealed: Sir Alex Ferguson’s astonishing reaction to hearing of Man Utd’s defeat to Spurs
No, he … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Britain swamped by hidden anti-EU messages in the Express

The Daily Express says the “EU wants to control your pension”. Happily, like you, my pension is in the Cayman Islands, which is not in the EU – yet. But … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2016 | In: Reviews, Tabloids | Comment

Guardian: ‘let’s start a war with Jersey’

 

How clueless and lacking in direction is the Left? Get this from Polly Tonybee in the Guardian. She’s talking about off-shore tax idylls, like the British Virgin Islands and Jersey:
Today Cameron’s … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Money, Reviews | Comment

Manchester United: players’ revolt, Van Gaal mired and the board dither

“CLUELESS,” says the Sun in its appraisal of Manchester United manger Louis Van Gaal. And the players agree. They “labelled  boss Louis Van Gaal ‘clueless’ in an amazing dressing-room inquest”.

They … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Beau Dermott attacked in tabloids: media training 101

 

Beau Dermott is Britain’s Got Talent’s “sensation” (The Sun). West End musical Wicked has “reached out to her”. Beau, 12, is on the celebrity treadmill. Beau says that on an … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2016 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids, TV & Radio | Comment

Adam Johnson: a ‘cushy’ life at Holme away from home

Adam Johnson, the former Sunderland footballer serving a six-year prison sentence for sexual activity with a girl of 15, is in a “Cushy” cell. So says the Sun, which features … (read more)

Posted: 12th, April 2016 | In: Reviews, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

David Cameron: man makes modest investment, BBC gets owned by tax expert (Video)

You might not like David Cameron, but anyone sane should know that the fuss over his tax affairs is nonsense. The business pages of the Press – and the BBC’s … (read more)

Posted: 11th, April 2016 | In: Money, Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Arsenal balls: Wenger is crap, Keown is a one-man team and The Sun is clueless

Arsenal and West Ham United draw 3-3 and the Sun says it;s more evidence that Arsene Wenger is crap:
“Isn’t it funny the Wenger empire was built on  a defence he inherited … (read more)

Posted: 11th, April 2016 | In: Arsenal, Back pages, Sports | Comment

Highgate toilet for rent at £3000 A Year

Up the tofu mountain we trudge to Highgate, where James Atherton is looking to rent out his toilet. James owns a standalone bog inside a block of flats at the bottom … (read more)

Posted: 11th, April 2016 | In: Money, Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Arsenal fan starts fight with West Ham teddy mascot

Arsenal fans, listen up. If you are going to pick a fight with any of the West Ham mascots, we’d not go for the massive teddy called Bubbles the Bear. Football is … (read more)

Posted: 11th, April 2016 | In: Arsenal, Sports | Comment (1)

‘Die Queen’: Der Spiegel writes awkward headline

Der Spiegel has words for Her Majesty:

 

Prince Charles is away…

Spotter: YoungVulgarian … (read more)

Posted: 11th, April 2016 | In: Reviews, Royal Family | Comment

Manchester United got Van Gaal and Spurs get to dream

 

Does Louis Van Gaal regret turning down Spurs in 2014? “The challenge was bigger for me at Manchester United and shall always be bigger,” says Van Gaal. “I’m sorry for Tottenham but … (read more)

Posted: 11th, April 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports, Spurs | Comment

Pranked Burger King staff break windows to stop restaurant exploding

 

“It’s nothing I ever came across so I didn’t know what to do,” says Burger King employee Ethan Grewe, who works at the eatery in Coon Rapids, Minnesota,. “The caller told my manager the fire … (read more)

Posted: 11th, April 2016 | In: Reviews, Strange But True | Comment

Airport Authority of India orders: ‘No Eating Carpet’

 

The Airport Authority of India is an equal opportunities employer. … (read more)

Posted: 11th, April 2016 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Howard Marks: celebrity drug smuggler dies

Howard Marks has died. He was 70.
Jailed in the US in 1990 after being convicted of smuggling cannabis, he recalled his exploits in a best-selling autobiography, Mr Nice, which was … (read more)

Posted: 11th, April 2016 | In: Celebrities | Comment

Hitler obeys orders and leaves his keys to Tegernsee

“Adieu, Adolf!” salutes the Tegernseers Stimme newspaper. After a mere 83 years, the Tegernsee burghers have stripped Hitler of his “freedom of the city”.

Should the dead controversialist seek to roam the town in … (read more)

Posted: 10th, April 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Manchester United Martial in XXX Factor sex balls

Manchester United’s Anthony Martial is no longer with his wife. The Sun says the “French ace romped with X Factor wannabe Emily Wademan in Paris while his wife Samantha was at … (read more)

Posted: 10th, April 2016 | In: Celebrities, manchester united, Sports, Tabloids | Comment

Luton Labour Party councillor suspended over anti-Semitic tweets

 

People in Luton voted for Warwick University student Aysegul Gurbuz to be their Labour Party councillor. The 20-year-old student of Politics and Sociology has been suspended “over claims she called Hitler ‘the greatest … (read more)

Posted: 10th, April 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)

Life apes Fawlty Towers: man arrested for assaulting car

The Ford Taurus took the brunt of Mikhail Igrevich Belenky’s assault. The student 19, of Howard Lake, Minnesota, was seen screaming and hitting the vehicle on the Winona State University campus.

Police were … (read more)

Posted: 10th, April 2016 | In: Strange But True | Comment

Suits you David Cameron: The Guardian gets it wrong on tax

More tax illiteracy in the Guardian, which has seen David Cameron’s tax return:
It’s not all hardship, though. The prime minister’s own party supports him where necessary, the returns reveal. Expenses met … (read more)

Posted: 10th, April 2016 | In: Broadsheets, Money, Politicians, Reviews | Comment

Manchester United and Spurs balls: Kane and Pochettino got their separate ways

Big news in the Sun that Tottenham striker Harry Kane has “urged” manager Mauricio Pochettino to remain at White Hart Lane and snub any move to Manchester United.

 

That in the Sun, which … (read more)

Posted: 9th, April 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports, Spurs | Comment

Manchester United: players earn less in line with Moyes and Van Gaal

Manchester United’s players will earn less money if they fail to qualify for next season’s Champions League, says the Times. The paper reasons that “players and coaching staff stand to lose … (read more)

Posted: 9th, April 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports | Comment

Bill Clinton shouts over Black Lives Matter protesters – good

 

“How dare Bill Clinton shout over Black Lives Matter protesters,” writes Steven W Thrasher in the Guardian. Very quickly we realise why:
I’ll admit it: I’m prejudiced.

Whenever I see a conflict between … (read more)

Posted: 9th, April 2016 | In: Politicians, Reviews | Comment

The New Day front page looks a lot like last month’s That’s Life magazine

In today’s The New Day newspaper, read the story of a mum who wants to have her son’s baby:

 

 

You might have read the same story in the March 31 issues of That’s Life … (read more)

Posted: 8th, April 2016 | In: Reviews, Strange But True, Tabloids | Comment

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